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Marvel Rivals Dev Apologizes for Mistakenly Banning Steam Deck/Mac players, will unban accounts (www.ign.com)
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[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 46 points 2 months ago (3 children)

Just saw the Ars Technica article on this, and it included this lovely section:

As detailed in the r/macgaming subreddit and at r/SteamDeck, many players who successfully got Marvel Rivals working would receive a "Penalty Issued" notice, with a violation "detected" and bans issued until 2124. Should such a ban stand, players risked entirely missing the much- prophesied Year of the Linux Desktop or Mainstream Mac Gaming, almost certain to happen at some point in that span.

[–] savvywolf@pawb.social 37 points 2 months ago (2 children)

I can't believe they can ban people from the Year of the Linux Desktop.

[–] massive_bereavement@fedia.io 27 points 2 months ago

As the glow of civilization fades to the last ember, a single player still stands, still plays, and he uses a linux distribution which name has been forgotten to time.

It is the year of the linux desktop.

[–] Fubarberry@sopuli.xyz 8 points 2 months ago

Yeah, those absolute monsters.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 8 points 2 months ago

Like Fusion the year of Linux is always next year. It will be next year forever.

[–] MajorHavoc@programming.dev 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

Should such a (100 year) ban stand, players risked entirely missing the much- prophesied Year of the Linux Desktop or Mainstream Mac Gaming, almost certain to happen at some point in that span.

Lol. Harsh, but fair.

[–] metaStatic@kbin.earth 28 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I still don't know what type of game Rivals is

NetEase

Turns out I also don't care

[–] tuxiqae@lemmy.dbzer0.com 7 points 2 months ago (2 children)

Care to explain what's wrong with it?

[–] cRazi_man@lemm.ee 21 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I'm not the person you replied to.

Netease is a Chinese company and some people don't like that. They have also been known to make scummy, cash grab, micro transaction riddled games and are disliked for this.

[–] echodot@feddit.uk 9 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

It's not that they're a Chinese company in and of itself it's simply that every Chinese company that has ever been involved in technology, see Eufy, always turns out to be a scam / privacy invasion nightmare.

[–] metaStatic@kbin.earth 10 points 2 months ago

they are everything that is wrong with mobile games turned up to 11

[–] thingsiplay 15 points 2 months ago (1 children)

That's so refreshing to see.

[–] Lojcs@lemm.ee 4 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Apex also did this a couple times, until they just disabled Linux support

[–] thingsiplay 7 points 2 months ago

Not really. EA sometimes made changes that broke Linux or Steam Deck support. It was Valve (and probably others to be fair) who fixed it couple of times.